Take me to the MotherFucking Ship

Just look at this ad for an anchor with the CBC radio in Charlottetown. Let your eyes caress its well-conceived words and ideas.

Island Morning is an energetic, inquisitive and clever radio program that tells the stories of ordinary Islanders and analyzes the politics of government and the business of PEI’s primary industries. The program’s core values are Probing, Connected, Original and Clever.

Oh, you know that they are aware of their acronym. You just KNOW it. Because they are the CBC, goddamn it.

Job Requires:
· Solid journalistic credentials with a strong interest in provincial, national and international affairs
· Exceptional ability to write for radio
· Proven experience interviewing, writing, and presenting current affairs.
· An understanding of Prince Edward Island – or passion to learn about it
· Knowledge of a wide range of music
· Huge curiosity about many things and a sense of adventure
· A demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement; willingness to embrace changing technology
· An engaging and intelligent on-air presence
· Good editorial judgment and story sense
· Capable of a wide emotional range on air

· Ability to work under pressure and to deadline
· Personal maturity to work collaboratively with other program producers and the other members of the station programming team (including TV and Online); flexible
· Sense of humour
· Resourceful, can-do attitude
· Innovative
· Passionate about Canada and driven to explore its stories, issues and ideas

Come ON! I’ll do it for free!

Sigh.

It’s raining. Smells of wet cement and rubber. Going outside to dance and splash.